Calculates the harmonic mean of a data set.
Sample usage
HARMEAN(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
HARMEAN(A2:A100)
Syntax
HARMEAN(value1, [value2, ...])
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value1– The first value or range of the population. -
value2, ...– Additional values or ranges to include in the population.
Notes
- The harmonic mean of a population is the size of the population divided by the sum of the reciprocals of each of the data points in the population.
See also
TRIMMEAN: Calculates the mean of a data set excluding some proportion of data from the high and low ends of the data set.
SMALL: Returns the nth smallest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.
RANK: Returns the rank of a specified value in a data set.
QUARTILE: Returns a value nearest to a specified quartile of a data set.
PERCENTRANK: Returns the percentage rank (percentile) of a specified value in a data set.
PERCENTILE: Returns the value at a given percentile of a data set.
MINA: Returns the minimum numerical value in a data set.
MIN: Returns the minimum value in a numerical data set.
MEDIAN: Returns the median value in a numerical data set.
MAXA: Returns the maximum numerical value in a data set.
LARGE: Returns the nth largest element from a data set, where n is user-defined.
GEOMEAN: Calculates the geometric mean of a data set.
AVERAGEA: Returns the numerical average value in a data set.
AVERAGE: The AVERAGE function returns the numerical average value in a dataset, ignoring text.